True Crime

Seattle has a long tradition of being at the forefront of technological innovation. In 1919, an eager young inventor named Alfred M. Hubbard made his first newspaper appearance with the announcement of a perpetual motion machine that harnessed energy from Earth's atmosphere. From there,...

Prohibition consumed Seattle, igniting a war that lasted nearly twenty years and played out in the streets, waterways and even town hall. Roy Olmstead, formerly a Seattle police officer, became the King of the Seattle Bootleggers, and Johnny Schnarr, running liquor down from Canada,...

Prohibition consumed Seattle, igniting a war that lasted nearly twenty years and played out in the streets, waterways and even town hall. Roy Olmstead, formerly a Seattle police officer, became the King of the Seattle Bootleggers, and Johnny Schnarr, running liquor down from Canada,...

An in-depth look at the 1971 trial of a serial killer who's been mostly forgotten -- except to those who were forever impacted. The Seattle TimesIn 1969, the body of a young woman was discovered in the woods of Renton, rocking the communities along...

Countless criminals have made their mark on Chicago and the surrounding communities. Chicago Sun-Times journalist Jon Seidel takes readers back in time to the days when H. H. Holmes lurked in his "Murder Castle" and guys named Al Capone and John Dillinger ruled the...

Author: Sarah B. MadryPublisher: Legacy SectorPublished: 07/12/2024Pages: 414Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85dISBN: 9781998414000This title is not returnable

Now a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio BanderasTwo-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud...

The exposé that reveals "a prostitution ring, heavy CIA involvement, spying on the White House as well as on the Democrats, and plots within plots" (The Washington Post) Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan--then the...

In this extraordinary book, historian Tony Insall reveals how some of the most striking achievements of the Norwegian resistance were the detailed reports produced by intelligence agents living in the dangerous conditions of the country's desolate wilderness.Author: Tony InsallPublisher: Biteback PublishingPublished: 06/09/2020Pages: 464Binding Type:...

Have you ever wondered what money and power could buy that you can't find in a store? My kids call me mum, my friends call me Anna, but others know me by another name. The World's Most Notorious Madame! During my tenure under this...

Have you ever wondered what money and power could buy that you can't find in a store? My kids call me mum, my friends call me Anna, but others know me by another name. The World's Most Notorious Madame! During my tenure under this...

Before he was the Golden State Killer, he was the Visalia Ransacker: an unholy mix of man and child, a risk-averse tactician with an animalistic impulsiveness, and a violent, sexually motivated monster with an affinity for shiny objects and pocket change. Eventually responsible for...

Spies have to be innovative to stay undercover during missions. Readers will learn about wartime spies and the disguises and gadgets they used to gain intel.Author: Christy PetersonPublisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)Published: 01/01/2021Pages: 32Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.60h x 7.20w x 0.30dISBN: 9781728404257Audience: 08...

Every small town has a moment when the real world abruptly intrudes, shattering the town's notions of itself and its people. For citizens of Marshall, Michigan, that moment came August 18, 1967. Nola Puyear was working downtown at the Tasty Cafe that morning when...

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their family--though one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been "lost" to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeth's children mysteriously...

**Now a TV Movie** In Secrets of a Marine's Wife, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Shanna Hogan tells the true story of a young Marine wife whose illicit affair ended in tragedy. In June 2014, 19-year-old Erin Corwin was living a...

Author: David Paul Hammer, Jeffery William PaulPublisher: 1st Book LibraryPublished: 03/24/2004Pages: 348Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.08w x 0.91dISBN: 9781414058115This title is not returnable

The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect them In early 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired...

This book, first published in 1991, examines the changes to security and intelligence agencies envisioned in the uncertain world at the end of the Cold War. While the central focus is on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, its history, function and future, there are...

A devastating true story of love, betrayal, and deceit. Chrissy: attractive, successful 40-year-old divorcee with three amazing children. Alexander Marc d'Ariken de Rothschild-Hatton: international financier, wealthy, charming and smooth-talking.It's not long before they fall madly in love. With the promise of marriage and a...